Program & Portfolio Management - Analyst, Business

Ampcus Inc; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc is looking for an Agile Senior Business Analyst in Reston, VA, to serve as a liaison between stakeholders and Agile teams. This position requires 5 years of experience in business analysis and expertise in Agile methodologies.

The analyst will facilitate Agile ceremonies, create user stories in JIRA, and ensure high-quality delivery of projects. The role offers opportunities for continuous improvement in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5 years progressive experience in business analysis or systems analysis.
• Experience with health insurance and interacting with large scrum teams.
• Hands-on experience with creating user stories in JIRA.

Responsibilities

• Interprets business needs and creates user stories.
• Responsible for user acceptance testing and documentation.
• Supports end users with training and communications.
• Monitors project status and mitigates risks.

Skills

Business analysis

Agile methodologies

User acceptance testing

JIRA

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4 years relevant experience

Tools

JIRA

Microsoft Office

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Title

Program & Portfolio Management - Analyst, Business

Location

Reston, VA

Duration

12 Months - Temp to perm

Job Summary

The Agile Senior Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams, ensuring that evolving business needs are continuously understood, prioritized, and translated into actionable user stories and product features. This role is responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies, refining backlogs, and driving iterative delivery of value through close collaboration with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, and QA teams. The incumbent ensures that business objectives are met by enabling adaptive planning, early delivery, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Interprets business needs and issues by gathering, eliciting, creating, analyzing, documenting, and validating the Business area’s user and/or technical (functional/non-functional) requirements.
• Responsible for the overall success of user acceptance testing, including documentation, verification, and release.
• Support end users with training and release communications.
• Identifies, documents, and troubleshoots problems utilizing acquired experience and knowledge of the relationships in systems, software, and processes.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation of business processes, workflows, and system interactions using Agile-friendly formats.
• Monitors and reports project status to identify and mitigate risks and to ensure quality and timely deliverables.
• Research and respond to policy-related inquiries impacting Agile delivery or system behavior.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, testing or other analytical experience.
• Health insurance experience.
• Experience with interacting with large scrum teams.
• Agile experience.
• Hands‑on experience with creating 10-15 user stories per week in JIRA.
• In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to deliver high-quality Agile artifacts and contribute to cost‑effective, value‑driven solutions.
• Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and business analysis core competencies.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and Agile tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps).
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities and multiple concurrent initiatives.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.